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Sort of a photo guide to live rock. I'm just gonna start it out with a few pics of critters I have, and will add to periodically as I find new things/take new pictures. Anyone can feel free to add their own photos. Live rock is the best.


A majano anemone. A lot of people consider these to be pests like Aiptasia, but this one hasn't spread at all. It has grown a bit since I put the rock in, though. I like it, so it'll stay around.


Some type of small shrimp. There are lots of them running around the rocks and sand. They sort of look like mysis, but I'm really not sure.


Two different filter feeders in the middle of the picture. The one on the bottom is a small feather duster worm, the top one is unidentified. On the left is a rock with some nice pink growths, I think they're sponges.


My favorite coralline algae ever. It actually came with a rock that had a dying coral on it. The coral is at the upper right, and seems to be slowly recovering.

That's all for now.

EDIT: The resizing didn't work all the way, I'll get back to the bigger pics tonight.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

Some majanos spread and some don't so some people don't mind leaving them while others have had their tank completely taken over.

The shrimp are probably amphipods.

The sponge looking things are likely foraminferans. They look like small hard red, orange, or yellow growths usually on rocks with lots of coraline.

There's a useful hitchhiker page which has all those things pictured: http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/main_pages/faq_rock3.htm

The coral almost looks like acan lords. If so, great find.

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I believe this to be a peanut worm

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

That's actually what it is. The guy at the store said he paid 800 bucks for the coral years ago (when it was really expensive), but couldn't keep it alive. He threw it in his barely-lighted live rock bin where I found it. Obviously this sucker can take a lot of punishment.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

Two more:

Live rock snail- I have this type and one other kind which I haven't gotten a picture of.


My largest vermetid snail. Sorry for the poor quality, still haven't figured out the whiteness (is that it?) setting.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

White balance, and it looks like you have a mojano there too.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Two of them, but apparently a different kind. One of them was originally down on the rock with that other Majano, but I knocked it off and it blew up top. It's probably the source of the second one up there.

I've got a white ball anemone in there too, but the feather Caulerpa is blocking a good picture. Once the angelfish finishes killing my Caulerpa, I can take one.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

Nice to see this finally coming along Nick.

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

Here's that other kind of snail I mentioned:



I believe this is a Cirratulid worm. It's awesome. The day after I put the rock in, I actually saw it lower itself from one piece to the area where it's holed up now.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

That actually looks a lot like a spaghetti worm. I have several of them in my LR and there fun to watch do there thing.

Yep- according to this article, they're the same deal. Pretty cool for worms.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

This guy actually showed up about 2 months ago. That's about 9 months after I got the live rock.



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Cool Duster

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

nice LR books
The acan lords was a very very good find by the sounds of it
Anyrate looking good




BTW very nice Feather duster matty

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''All the clown fish and yellow tangs in the world cant save you now!''

I have some of these nice little flatworms in the tank, but I don't see them too often. They move in such an odd manner, it's pretty cool to watch.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

The ones I have are red, and they are all over in small amounts - one here one there. They don't seem to cause any problems, and are pretty neat IMO. It's funny how people make a big deal about having just a few of them. Same with bristleworms.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Wow, nice Live Rock, books.

Heh, I never knew that you could get worms and shrimp from LR. But I also haven't researched SW at all, heh.

Wow, that featherduster is perfect. Very nice.

I actually like the contrast in the picture of the vermetid snail.

I know less than nothing about live rocks. (Other than they are pretty) . . .

I guess I will have to have a party when I get a SW tank! I'll buy the pizza, you guys work on the tank!

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"it's the neck, it creaks under the weight of too much heavy thinking."

I have some of these nice little flatworms in the tank, but I don't see them too often.

Nick, the flatworm that you have there in the picture is perfectly harmless. The white ones like you have feed on pods and once the population of pods withers away to a low enough number the flatworms will die off too

This is the largest bristleworm I've seen in there so far:

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

Here's a stomatella(no LR in the pic....but that's where he must have come from):

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients